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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 May 2010
VERSUM a Thoma quodam fictum hunc habemus:
non ego sum princeps, nec sors praecepit ut essem,
qui modo sum dominis principibusque comes.
qualis satelles is esset talem habemus ab hoc confectum. fabulam enim in scaenam agendam petebant iuuenes; scriptam, sed tum quidem spretam, habebat hic uir. conuenit fabula, agitur, placet. quid plura? postero die
surgit homo tota subito narratus in urbe.
ex quo primum enim mortuum esse par illud satellitum uisum est, inuentionis scaenicae hic non caret fontibus, siue ex Abona Sabrinaue cum Camo hausit lymphaue ferociore, siue ex Ilisso, Danuuio, Indo. ex noto fictum carmen componere mauult, atque in unum ita alienas personas Arcadia testudine non omissa coniungit ut alteram uitam, eamque probabiliorem quam priorem, explicare uideantur. qui sub Mercurio quippe natus quisquiliarum et nugarum quasi correptor est. sunt qui haec incusent; bene monet Q. Flaccus:
rectius Iliacum carmen deducis in actus
quam si proferres ignota indictaque primus.
praeterea ut salibus et facetiis abundat ita non tamen grauiora neglegit; est enim illa
lux breuis, a dextra penetrans mortalia rerum,
quae uidetur apertissime cum satelles unus, obuiam alteri simillime togato factus, tum demum ipsum se quis esset inuenire potuisset:
heus tu! mane dum, neu mihi – em, iam tempus est
ex quo – sed ubi te uidi? iam sum in me redux.
sed nonne te cognoui? numquam memoria
fugit os, nisi tuom. pol uidebaris modo -
ignoro omnino. uereor ne in errore sis
qui forte me esse nescioquem alterum autumas.
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